My message to remaining LUCC students: 12-12-02
I thank the many alumni throughout the world that have thanked me for keeping them
informed about LUCC. Those who have no interest have no idea how the school廣
treatment at the hands of the CCE .. right or wrong .. hurts. The campus offered many
amenities .. including a first rate sports facility with many years of championship teams
now gathering dust and being entered as a proud mention in the school archives.
Classroom buildings that were first used as a warehouse but eventually blossomed into a
state of the art learning facility. There were many warts and valid student and faculty
complaints there were marginally addressed by the administration .. no better or no worse
than most schools.
Let廣 cut to the chase .. the implosion of LUCC .. 2100 DC students down to 680 within a
year .. give or take a few hundreds here and there .. is a travesty and horrid blight on the
history of chiropractic. Whether you have been a supporter of the school or an opponent of
their survival .. you cannot deny the growth and sustenance of an institution that graduated
thousands of chiropractors assisting their communities worldwide. Sadly .. many of the
vilest opponents of LUCC graduated from the institution they so avidly blast. Many state
board examiners and association presidents also graduates.
Truth be told .. LUCC was huge and became a money pit for an administration that was tall
with ideals and short on practicality .. forcing the pumping action for more students .. more
money and creating more unrelenting debt. Those who have left .. left for practical personal
reasons .. my wishes for their success and a smooth transition go with the them. Those
who have remained must do so with eyes and ears wide open. With the transition of
administration and the removal of a chronic ego battle .. the school has a future less
structured but no less purposeful.
I challenge every remaining student to insist on open communications and accountability
from the administration and faculty. Years ago when I taught there .. I was asked my
opinion why the alumni support was lacking. I e-mailed my opinion with a clear message ..
administration accountability and availability .. student participation .. alumni liaisons
before graduation .. simply .. communications. Nothing obviously changed except now the
school will be more intimate and driven to survive and succeed.
You that have remained .. especially those that are in the upper quarters .. I thank you for
holding onto what remains of an institution that provided me a diploma .. that allowed me
an opportunity to share with their students .. that doesn廠 deserve its present fate.
I challenge each of you to work within the framework of the CCE while preserving the
philosophy that is the essence of LUCC .. it can be incorporated within the CCE
guidelines. Labels and diagnostic focus is all within the realm of learning .. your
application upon graduation is your decision as it has been for everyone else. Don廠 get too
hung up with semantics .. instead press harder for Spizzerentum .. if you don廠 know the
meaning of the word .. then search and like the holy grail .. once found you幢l be home.
I appeal to the CCE to make every effort to make a quick unprecedented and uncharted
revisit to LUCC and apply every means to create a fast track towards reaccredidation. The
simple brush off of not allowing even a request for reaccredidation until 2004 is
unacceptable. Treating LUCC with such disdain is unacceptable. The process of implosion
with the scattering of students .. uprooting of families .. financial repercussions of each
student and those that supported them is unacceptable. Be that as it may .. what has been
done has been done. Let廣 be real .. the fight was between one man and one institution.
Only one remains from this long standing battle. The fight is over. The legal battle may just
be beginning. Avoid further upset and division in our already divisive profession. LUCC
must be viable and will be .. give it a chance to blossom again.
Dr. M